Kevin Spacey Foundation to help young actors closes

The Kevin Spacey Foundation, set up by the Hollywood star to help emerging actors, is to close.

The foundation’s future had been in doubt as allegations accumulated against Spacey. In October an actor, Anthony Rapp, said that when he was 14 the star, then 26, had made a sexual advance. Spacey apologised but said he could not remember the alleged incident. Further allegations followed, including from Roberto Cavazos, who performed in productions at the Old Vic theatre in London where Spacey was artistic director from 2004-15. The Metropolitan Police is currently investigating three allegations of sexual assault against the actor, who is now 58.

The foundation had a link with Regent’s University which ended in 2016. The university said that staff members had always been…

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